38 | BlockchainHow does it work?SecurityD’Annunzio’s team at Traent has made the The use of multiple blockchains blockchain workfow as easy as possible for makes the Traent system highly label converters to use.secure. ‘If someone attacks one node ‘You can develop your own blockchain of a blockchain the whole system workfows in-house without any blockchain has problems,’ explains d’Annunzio. skills,’ says d’Annunzio. ‘We have created ‘But with multiple blockchains editable workfows where you create your you only ever have a risk to that own blockchain with one click. You can single blockchain. In the case of a easily create and exchange data – it is just a ransomware attack, we have a recovery standard web interface like you would fnd key. You cannot attack the whole on Google Drive or Microsoft Offce. This system. You can guarantee your data is a democratization of blockchain. You do will never be lost.’ not need to code anything.’ Traent headquarters in PisaThe blockchain workfow interfaces with a user’s standard IT system using APIs “The workfow acts as a risk management tool [Application Programming Interface]. D’Annunzio says there are no limits because the label converter can decide what to the number of blockchains that can be created.information is made available, and to whom”‘I have a node and you have a node and that creates a blockchain. Also, we are ‘You segregate the information you This means processes can be platform agnostic and can put data onto want to keep hidden and aggregate the continuously monitored. any blockchain.’ information you want to make public. You ‘Energy consumption in the factory The workfow acts as a risk management make things private or transparent as you or on a press can be transformed into tool because the label converter can decide want,’ explains d’Annunzio. a blockchain node. All this data is what information is made available, and Data export from the blockchain can time-stamped and on the blockchain, to whom. This means there is no danger of take place in real-time from IoT sensors and so cannot be changed or altered.’ disclosing confdential information – which blockchain nodes – what d’Annunzio calls a For example, if a converter has GEW also means the system is GDPR-compliant. ‘living blockchain.’ lamps on its press, GEW can add a small LABELS & FILMS Slitter RewindersELECTRICAL www.nicely.com.twPAPERS NONWOVENS LABELS & FILMS METAL FOILS RETROFITTINGINSULATIONSNicely Machinery Development Co., Ltdlabelsandlabeling.com